Read more John Updike stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/17227/john-updike.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:14:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49439/updike-mused-on-own-overdue-demise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike considered his own mortality, and did so with his usual wry wit. The evidence is in one of his last poems called "Requiem," writes the New York Post. It begins: "It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would say, 'Oh, what a...http://www.newser.com/story/49439/updike-mused-on-own-overdue-demise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Jan 2009 12:44:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe , calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times , the first line of his story A&P displays a “durability that authors can...http://www.newser.com/story/49139/updike-an-author-hoping-to-talk-to-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 15:44:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49132/john-updike-dies-at-76.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters, and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and other adventures in postwar America, died today of lung cancer at age 76. A literary force who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, Updike penned novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness , and...http://www.newser.com/story/49132/john-updike-dies-at-76.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 12:39:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43241/this-years-bad-sex-winners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTen authors have joined the distinguished ranks of such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe—as nominees for the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. The dubious honor singles out “otherwise sound literary” fiction that includes “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature,...http://www.newser.com/story/43241/this-years-bad-sex-winners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Nov 2008 7:00:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12300/nyt-s-top-reads-for-2007.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRecent write-ups say Americans should read more—but where to start? Try the New York Times ' 100 notable books of 2007, ranging from fiction to poetry, essays to bios. Among the acclaimed page-turners: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal , Ben Macintyre The Art of...http://www.newser.com/story/12300/nyt-s-top-reads-for-2007.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Nov 2007 17:17:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12011/amazons-e-book-gamble-gets-big-play.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNews that Amazon would debut its new Kindle e-book leaked earlier this week, and a Newsweek cover story has the full hype on what Jeff Bezos and company hope to achieve with it. "This isn't a device, it's a service," Bezos says of of the Kindle, pointing to its "Whispernet"...http://www.newser.com/story/12011/amazons-e-book-gamble-gets-big-play.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Nov 2007 3:24:13 CST